
STELLAR TIMES A monthly newsletter from Orion Business & Accounting Solutions

October 2008 Edition

FALL IS HERE!,

Odds and Ends from Orion:

This Fall seems to be a mixed bag of events from good to bad. One the Good Side - apple orchards, football and Halloween on the Bad Side - political television ads, colder weather and the economy.
A note on service updates - Sage publishes notes for each service update they release on what program or module they patched and what was fixed. For example - the update notes might say - "The Cash Receipts Report now correctly prints check details when Print Invoice Detail is set to Summary". It is important to review these notes to see if they might correct an issue you are having on your level. Don't be afraid to call us and ask for help if you need more information.
For those on Level 4.1, Level 4.2 and Level 4.3. Sage has been consistently releasing a new service update for 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 on a monthly/bi-monthly basis. Level 4.1 is on service update number 20, Level 4.2 is on service update number 20 (both of these are their Microsoft Vista compliant releases) and 4.3 is on service update number 4. These updates are available to you as part of your Client Care subscription with Sage. If you need help installing any of the service updates or have any questions, please give us a call.

Till next month,

THIS MONTH'S FUN FACT

October has National Squirrel Awareness Month:

Interesting Facts on Squirrels

There are over 365 species of squirrels in seven families. They include the tree squirrel, ground squirrel, and flying squirrel. Plus many squirrel-like mammals such as the gopher, ground hog and prairie dog.

Squirrels are the most active in late winter, when the mating season begins. The males will chase a females, as well as, chase off other suitors. This ritual of chasing, occurs through the trees at top speed. While they perform some of the most breathtaking acrobatics imaginable.

A squirrels teeth grow continuously. Their incisor's will grow six inches per year, but stay short due to the constant wear they receive.

A squirrel will break the shell of a nut with its teeth, then clean the nut by licking it or rubbing on its face before it is buried. This action applies a scent to the nut which helps the squirrel find it later, even under a foot of snow.

The sweat glands of a tree squirrel are located on their feet, between the foot pads and on their paws between the toes. When hot or excited a squirrel will leave wet tracks on a dry surface. This scent is also used to mark the trees in their territory.

The squirrel's erratic path while crossing a street is an attempt to confuse the oncoming vehicle... thereby causing it to change direction. This is obliviously the squirrels biggest, and often last mistake.

And last, the most famous squirrel is, of course, Rocky from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

MAS90 User's Conference

Orion cordially invites you to join us for the 2008 MAS Users Academy. In our 6th year, this is a great opportunity to participate in an event designed especially for you, the end user. Come and spend a day learning about MAS90; what's new in the latest release, what's the future plan for the software, classes on specific topics and most important, a chance to network with other MAS90 users like yourself. We are offering two session tracks that you can pick from: application oriented and technical oriented. The materials presented in each session will be provided to every attendee, so you won't miss a thing.

WHEN:     Thursday, October 30, 2008
TIME:       8:00 am to 3:45 pm
WHERE:    Embassy Suites Hotel in Southfield, MI
FEE:         Academy fee is $ 100 per person

Registration is required (see link to printable form)
Discounts available for companies registering more than one person.

This year's sessions.

	APPLICATION TRACK	TECHNICAL TRACK
8:30 to 9:15am	General Session	General Session
9:30 to 10:45am	What's New in MAS90 Level 4.3	Business Insights Explorer 4.3
11:00 to 12:15pm	Correcting Accounting Mistakes	Cloud Computing
12:15 to 1:00pm	Lunch	Lunch
1:00 to 2:15pm	Utilize Shipping Data Entry	Reporting Options - Session One
2:30 to 3:45pm	MAS90 Open Panel Q & A	Reporting Options - Session Two

To register, please click the following link (2008-UsersAcademyInvite) for a downloadable .pdf with more details on the each session and a sign-up form.

We hope to see you there!

Great Fall Promotions on MAS90 and MAS200!

Enroll in Sage Payment Solutions and save $1,435 on the Sage MAS 90 and 200 Cash Flow bundle

In today�s economy, it is crucial for businesses to take measures to improve and promote healthy cash flow. For a limited time only, Sage MAS 90 and 200 customers who enroll in Sage Payment Solutions will be eligible to have the cost of the Credit Card Processing module waived � a savings of $1,100 (excluding subscription cost)!

Plus, Sage MAS 90 and 200 customers who participate in this promotion are also eligible to receive Business Alerts for only $895 (excluding subscription cost) � a savings of over $335! Now is the time to take advantage of this great offer. To be eligible to receive the promotional pricing on Business Alerts, customers must participate in the full bundle.

Save big on the Sage MAS 90 and 200 Manufacturing bundle!

Complete your manufacturing solution. For a limited time only, Sage MAS 90 and 200 customers have the option to build their personalized manufacturing solution suite and save big when they purchase more than one of the following modules:

�Materials Resource Planning
�Bill of Materials
�Work Order
�Purchase Order
�Job Cost

SAVE BIG WHEN YOU ADD
� Buy 2 modules: $2,450
� Buy 3 modules: $3,500
� Buy 4 modules: $4,300
� Buy 5 modules: $4,900
� Buy the entire solution for only $5,250 - over 40% savings!
Note: Standard maintenance not included in the above listed module cost.

0% Financing on migrations to Sage MAS 90 or 200 Extended Enterprise Suite

For a limited time only, Sage MAS 90 and 200 customers can migrate to Sage MAS 90 or 200 Extended Enterprise Suite and receive 0% financing on the upgrade fees. Promotion applies to the product portion of the sale only and not to maintenance. Promotion cannot be combined with other promotions and applies only to nondiscounted transactions of $10,000 or greater.

For more information contact Jim Steele at 248-893-1060 or jimsteele@orionbas.com
Promotions here are valid through December 31st, 2008.

This month's Windows Tip : Where has Scan Disk gone. (XP)

Scandisk is not a part of Windows XP - instead you get the improved CHKDSK. You can use the Error-checking tool to check for file system errors and bad sectors on your hard disk.

1: Open My Computer, and then select the local disk you want to check.
2: On the File menu, click Properties.
3: On the Tools tab, under Error-checking, click Check Now.
4: Under Check disk options, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box.
� All files must be closed for this process to run. If the volume is currently in use, a message box will appear prompting you to indicate whether or not you want to reschedule the disk checking for the next time you restart your system. Then, the next time you restart your system, disk checking will run. Your volume will not be available to perform other tasks while this process is running.
� If your volume is formatted as NTFS, Windows automatically logs all file transactions, replaces bad clusters, and stores copies of key information for all files on the NTFS volume.

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